Ann M. St. Peter-Griffith has a national practice that focuses on all aspects of complex commercial litigation, including health care, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, product liability, constitutional, and employment discrimination cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts. Ann has substantive first chair jury and bench trial experience, having tried a number of cases in federal and state courts. Ann has served as first chair trial counsel representing Liggett Group in several extended multi-week, multi-defendant Engle progeny tobacco product liability jury trials, where she secured complete defense verdicts.

Ann also represents health care clients in civil and criminal matters throughout the United States. She frequently consults clients on significant health care matters including, qui tam, False Claims Act, Medicare fraud, pricing, Stark, Anti-kickback, HIPAA, and HITECH. Ann also lectures on health care and Medicare fraud topics. Prior to joining the firm, Ann was an Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”) for the Southern District of Florida, where she was responsible for a major multi-district litigation relating to hundreds of millions of dollars of Medicare and Medicaid pharmaceutical pricing fraud. Ann received the United States Attorney’s Team Award for Exceptional Performance in Civil Health Care Fraud, as well as two United States Attorney’s Special Service Awards. In addition, as an AUSA, she represented the United States through jury trials in complex employment discrimination cases. She successfully defended the constitutionality of a federal enforcement statute, and Department of Justice employees against constitutional challenges brought by a notorious drug kingpin. Ann devotes a significant amount of time to pro bono matters. She was a member of the litigation team that received the Florida Supreme Court’s Voluntary Bar Association Pro Bono Service award for its representation of 34,000 Cuban detainees held at the Guantanamo Naval Base. She has also represented guardians ad litem and served as a guardian ad litem for numerous severely abused and neglected children.

Ann regularly speaks on health care issues, with presentations including “Lawyers at the Bedside,” at the Florida Bar Health Law Section, Health Care Fundamentals Seminar; a Health Care panel at the Dade County Bar Association Bench Bar Conference; "Putting Medicare's Moving Parts in Focus," at the University of Miami School of Law Conference; and "Dealing with Fraud and Waste in Health Care," included in a National Webcast Seminar.

She has been recognized with an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell for her legal ability and ethical standards. Ann is also a recommended lawyer in the area of Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense in The Legal 500 US.

Currently representing a criminal defendant in a large Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecution, and a criminal defendant in a health care fraud matter involving tens of millions of dollars of alleged fraudulent claims.

Lead arbitration counsel for a pharmaceutical provider in a health care contract and collection dispute arbitration that resulted in a favorable settlement.

Lead trial counsel for Liggett Group inFannie Collar v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., et al., obtaining a complete defense jury verdict after a three-week jury trial in a multi-defendant Engle progeny case in Circuit Court, Indian River County, Florida.

Trial co-counsel for Alltel Communications (acquired by Verizon Wireless), successfully obtaining complete defense verdict after a three-week bench trial in a deceptive trade practices action brought by Florida’s Attorney General on behalf of approximately 500,000 Florida subscribers to Alltel’s roadside assistance program. Florida’s Attorney General sought more than $20 million in damages and billions in additional statutory penalties. For her work on the case, Ann was one of three Kasowitz lawyers named by the Daily Business Review as South Florida’s “Most Effective Lawyer” for 2011 in the category for Complex Business/Civil Litigation.

Lead counsel who secured a favorable settlement for a family of real estate investors in a specific performance equitable action brought to force the sale of certain valuable commercial and residential property in downtown Miami.

Lead co-counsel in nationwide health care multi-district litigation against Abbott Laboratories for average wholesale drug pricing fraud that resulted in a $126.5 million settlement.